Men will restrict women’s access to box cookers
Patrice M. **__Rodgers 1994__** (Solar Box Cookers in Zimbabwe: The Introduction of a Radical Innovation in Cooking, http://solarcooking.org/zimb-the.htm)

Men fear women will have more spare time with Solar box cookers, withholding the ovens and instigating gender conflicts. 
Merridy **__Wilson__** and J Maryann **__Green__** (The feasibility of introducing solar ovens to rural 
women in Maphephethe, ISSN 0378-5254 Tydskrif vir Gesinsekologie en Verbruikerswetenskappe, Vol 28, 2000 http://www.up.ac.za/academic/acadorgs/saafecs/vol28/wilson.pdf) 


Women don’t gain free time- they are forced to protect the fragile cookers 
Merridy **__Wilson__** and J Maryann **__Green__** (The feasibility of introducing solar ovens to rural 
women in Maphephethe, ISSN 0378-5254 Tydskrif vir Gesinsekologie en Verbruikerswetenskappe, Vol 28, 2000 http://www.up.ac.za/academic/acadorgs/saafecs/vol28/wilson.pdf)


Empirical Data proves women don’t save time by using solar ovens 
J. Maryann **__Green 2003__** (Gendered Impacts of Various Renewable Energy Technologies in Maphephetheni, Kwazulu-Natal, [[http://www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/en-112003.pdf|www.energia.org/resources/newsletter/en-112003.pdf]]) 

Women will still spend time fetching water post-plan 
J. Maryann **__Green 2003__** (Gendered Impacts of Various Renewable Energy Technologies in Maphephetheni,


Patriarchy is embedded in the post-colonial society- plan does nothing to reverse this
Moses **__Seenarine 1993__** (Agrarian Women's Resistance in Sub-Sahara Africa, http://www.saxakali.com/Saxakali-Publications/agrarian.htm) 